This literature review is intended to help inform the development and implementation of innovative, educationally sound high school redesigns in Alberta. It is provided as a support resource for school administrators involved in Alberta Education's High School Flexibility Enhancement Project. Support is provided in the following ways: (1) a brief…

Federal, State and school-based professional development has become a multi-million dollar educational enterprise in Australia. Yet there are no published models for the making of systems-level professional development policy. Reviewing the literature on the characteristics of effective professional development programs, this paper proposes a…

A conceptualization of the triune brain is described as offering an opportunity for a new learning paradigm that has great significance for education. (Author)

Described are principles of a natural system approach to educating learning disabled children. (CL)

Culture impedes educational transactions between developed countries, and is often an area of tension when developing countries try to borrow models, or have models imposed upon them. This article uses the German Dual System as a case for examining issues surrounding the adaptation of borrowed models. Since attempts at borrowing models can fail…

It is not yet well known that there has been a selective bias in writing the "world" history of higher education. Western hegemony prevails in this academic endeavour. To recover one of the many lost traditions of higher education, this paper will make a historical comparison of the two distinctive academic traditions representing the…

Career education models are based on the identification and analysis of major components needed to adapt present curricula into career-oriented curricula. There are four such models: school-based, employer-based, home/community based, and residential-based. The Comprehensive Career Education Model, a school-based model, provides the base to design…

The article examines three models of an educational relation, using comparisons between them to raise questions about likely developments in adult education. The models are: the Martin model, dialogue (a Socratic model), and negotiation. Each is discussed as triadic, asymmetrical, and transitive. (AG)

This is the first report from an ongoing study of four urban school districts (New York, New Orleans, Chicago, and the District of Columbia) that are experimenting with new school designs and new ways of holding schools accountable for performance. This report introduces the idea of a "portfolio school district," and shows how some leading school…

An undergraduate program oriented to developing multidisciplinary team competence in members of a variety of rehabilitation specialities is presented as an illustration of how such a model can be implemented. (Author)

The history of the ecological model, which views the handicapped child and special education intervention in the context of intricate relationships, is reviewed. (DB)

Paper delivered at the 18th Annual Meeting of the National Association for Gifted Children, Chicago, Illinois, May, 1971. (CB)

Though art educators in museums and in schools share content fields and professional backgrounds, they operate under quite different practical constraints. The autonomy of museum education, shaped by museums' missions more than by state guidelines, is part of its appeal as a profession; museum programs, in shaping their very malleable subject…

Over the past thirty years we have witnessed a proliferation of educational methods/methodologies aimed at helping us to make sense of the world--to provide clarity about the meaning of social reality. However, although these methods/methodologies are useful frameworks, they do not capture fully the untidy realities of the real world. The…